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Newsflash: All Donegal schools to shut as Red Alert issued for entire country

written by Stephen Maguire October 15, 2017
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Met Éireann has redesignated the entire country to a red level wind warning this evening as Hurricane Ophelia approaches.

The Department of Education said all schools and colleges will be closed tomorrow including Donegal.

A status red wind warning had been in place for Wexford, Galway, Mayo, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Waterford.

But the wind warning has now been extended across the rest of the country.

The weather warnings come into effect at nine o’clock tomorrow morning.

The hurricane is currently in transition to ex-tropical status, while maintaining hurricane force winds. Met Éireann said it is likely to hit with category two strength.

The Department of Education said its decision comes “following a special meeting of the Government Task Force on Emergency Planning in response to Ophelia’s imminent arrival”.

We will bring you other updates as we get them.

Newsflash: All Donegal schools to shut as Red Alert issued for entire country was last modified: October 16th, 2017 by Stephen Maguire
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Stephen Maguire

Stephen Maguire is the co-founder of Donegal Daily. He has worked as a reporter for almost 30 years starting locally with the Donegal Peoples Press before moving to the Mirror Group. He continues to contribute daily to national media outlets including the Irish Times, RTE, the Irish Independent, Irish Sun, Irish Mirror, Irish Star, the Daily Mail and the Examiner.

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